flight. flee.

Forgetting

bemused it stands:
at the pedestal, in the story, out in the song

seeking wings, to crawl out of the hole,
to fill soil in the pipelines of history and
to breathe again
 
identities splashed across fences scream
to be torn down;
new plantations seeks slaves today.

yet

forgetting, in the dawn, wilderness stands
breathing heavily of agendas and porn



'Flight' and 'flee' are siblings born from the word 'fly' and yet, their plumages are very different. The act of flight (from the Old English fleogan) got confused with the act of running away (Old English fleon) in Middle English and 'flight' took on the onus of 'flee'. In Modern English, 'flight' exists in both normative forms, while the preterite marks the difference between an act of freedom and an emotion of freedom. 1